Patents by Inventor Takafumi Kawano

Takafumi Kawano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10011376
    Abstract: It is to provide a packaging container comprising: a synthetic resin container body having a flange part at a periphery of an opening at an upper end thereof; and a container cap having a top board part and a skirt part provided such that it is suspended from a-periphery of the top board part, and wherein the top board part is heat-sealed onto an upper surface of the flange part of the container body; wherein the packaging container has a first cutout part at an upper end of an outer edge of the flange part. By providing a first cutout part, a packaging container possible to achieve sealing with the container cap stably, and to open the sealing easily and surely as well can be provided, by suppressing the effect of a molten resin on a folded corner part of the skirt of the container cap when the container body is heat-sealed with the container cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Shinohara, Takafumi Kawano, Motokazu Kawano, Masahar Kanai, Toshiro Watanabe, Mikio Ishimoto, Shin-Ichi Hoshi, Shin-Ichiro No
  • Patent number: 9708533
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member including a polycrystalline ceramics includes mixing a substance serving as a silicon source, a substance serving as an aluminum source, a substance serving as a calcium source, and a substance serving as a europium source; firing the obtained mixture to obtain an oxynitride phosphor powder; then sintering the oxynitride phosphor powder in an inert atmosphere to obtain the polycrystalline ceramics, characterized in that the sintered oxynitride phosphor powder has a composition (excluding oxygen) represented by the Formula: Cax1Eux2Si12-(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16-z (in the Formula, x1, x2, y, and z are values such that 0<x1?3.40, 0.05?x2?0.20, 3.5?y?7.0, 0?z?1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Iwashita, Takuma Sakai, Takayuki Ueda, Masataka Fujinaga, Shinsuke Jida, Masataka Yamanaga, Yuki Nagao, Takafumi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20170088774
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a ceramic composite material for light conversion which exhibit s excellent heat resistance, durability, and the like as a light converting member of an optical device such as a white light emitting diode, easily controls the ratio of light from a light source and fluorescence, can reduce color unevenness and variance of emitted light, and has high internal quantum efficiency and fluorescence intensity, a method for producing the same, and a light emitting device which includes the same and has high light conversion efficiency. Provided is a ceramic composite material for light conversion including: a fluorescence phase; and a light transmitting phase, the fluorescence phase being a phase containing Ln3Al5O12:Ce (Ln is at least one element selected from Y, Lu, and Tb, and Ce is an activation element), and the light transmitting phase being a phase containing LaAl11O18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiyohei Asai, Masataka Yamanaga, Kazuki Kuwahara, Yuki Nagao, Koji Shibata, Takafumi Kawano
  • Patent number: 9543480
    Abstract: A ceramic composite for light conversion comprising a solidified body in which crystalline phases of oxides are three-dimensionally entangled and a method for manufacture thereof. A manufacture method of a ceramic composite for light conversion is characterized in that a polishing step is provided in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process applied to the surface of a solidified body with a structure in which an Al2O3 phase and other phases are three-dimensionally entangled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai Inamori, Takafumi Kawano, Toshiro Doi, Syuhei Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 9334197
    Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic composite for light conversion including first step of forming the step level difference such that an oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase of a surface of a solidified body is in a convex shape relative to an Al2O3 phase by subjecting the surface of the solidified body having a structure in which the Al2O3 phase and the oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled with each other to dry etching, and a second step of reducing the step level difference by subjecting the solidified body subjected to the dry etching to CMP or MP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai Inamori, Takafumi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20150247086
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member including a polycrystalline ceramics includes mixing a substance serving as a silicon source, a substance serving as an aluminum source, a substance serving as a calcium source, and a substance serving as a europium source; firing the obtained mixture to obtain an oxynitride phosphor powder; then sintering the oxynitride phosphor powder in an inert atmosphere to obtain the polycrystalline ceramics, characterized in that the sintered oxynitride phosphor powder has a composition (excluding oxygen) represented by the Formula: Cax1Eux2Si12-(y+z)Al(y+z)OzN16-z (in the Formula, x1, x2, y, and z are values such that 0<x1?3.40, 0.05?x2?0.20, 3.5?y?7.0, 0?z?1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuki Iwashita, Takuma Sakai, Takayuki Ueda, Masataka Fujinaga, Shinsuke Jida, Masataka Yamanaga, Yuki Nagao, Takafumi Kawano
  • Patent number: 8765621
    Abstract: There is provided a dielectric ceramic composition for high-frequency use represented by a composition formula of a(Sn,Ti)O2-bMg2SiO4-cMgTi2O5-dMgSiO3. In the composition formula, a, b, c and d (provided that a, b, c and d are mol %) are within the following ranges: 4?a?37, 34?b?92, 2?c?15 and 2?d?15, respectively, and a+b+c+d=100. The dielectric ceramic composition for high-frequency use has a relative permittivity ?r of 7.5-12.0, a Qm×fo value of not less than 50000 (GHz) and an absolute value of a temperature coefficient ?f of resonance frequency fo of not more than 30 ppm/° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Masataka Yamanaga, Atsushi Okabe
  • Publication number: 20140138348
    Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic composite for light conversion including first step of forming the step level difference such that an oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase of a surface of a solidified body is in a convex shape relative to an Al2O3 phase by subjecting the surface of the solidified body having a structure in which the Al2O3 phase and the oxide crystal phase other than Al2O3 phase are continuously and three-dimensionally entangled with each other to dry etching, and a second step of reducing the step level difference by subjecting the solidified body subjected to the dry etching to CMP or MP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Inamori, Takafumi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20130327985
    Abstract: A ceramic composite for light conversion comprising a solidified body in which crystalline phases of oxides are three-dimensionally entangled and a method for manufacture thereof. A manufacture method of a ceramic composite for light conversion is characterized in that a polishing step is provided in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process applied to the surface of a solidified body with a structure in which an Al2O3 phase and other phases are three-dimensionally entangled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Inamori, Takafumi Kawano, Toshiro Doi, Syuhei Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20110236634
    Abstract: There is provided a dielectric ceramic composition for high-frequency use represented by a composition formula of a(Sn,Ti)O2-bMg2SiO4-cMgTi2O5-dMgSiO3. In the composition formula, a, b, c and d (provided that a, b, c and d are mol %) are within the following ranges: 4?a?37, 34?b?92, 2?c?15 and 2?d?15, respectively, and a+b+c+d=100. The dielectric ceramic composition for high-frequency use has a relative permittivity ?r of 7.5-12.0, a Qm×fo value of not less than 50000 (GHz) and an absolute value of a temperature coefficient ?f of resonance frequency fo of not more than 30 ppm/° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Ube Industries Ltd
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Masataka Yamanaga, Atsushi Okabe
  • Patent number: 7641970
    Abstract: A low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition is obtained by bending 2.5-20 parts by weight of a glass component per 100 parts by weight of an aggregate of dielectric particles which are composed of Ti-containing dielectric material and contain an oxide including Ti and Zn in the surface portions. A low temperature sintered dielectric ceramic is produced by sintering this low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition at 880 to 1000° C. With this low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition, there can be obtained a multiplayer electronic component having an internal conductor composed of Ag, Cu or an alloy containing at least one of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Masataka Yamanaga, Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20090212060
    Abstract: It is to provide a packaging container comprising: a synthetic resin container body having a flange part at a periphery of an opening at an upper end thereof; and a container cap having a top board part and a skirt part provided such that it is suspended from a-periphery of the top board part, and wherein the top board part is heat-sealed onto an upper surface of the flange part of the container body; wherein the packaging container has a first cutout part at an upper end of an outer edge of the flange part. By providing a first cutout part, a packaging container possible to achieve sealing with the container cap stably, and to open the sealing easily and surely as well can be provided, by suppressing the effect of a molten resin on a folded corner part of the skirt of the container cap when the container body is heat-sealed with the container cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Shinohara, Takafumi Kawano, Motokazu Kawano, Masaharu Kanai, Toshiro Watanabe, Mikio Ishimoto, Shin-ichi Hoshi, Shin-ichiro No
  • Patent number: 7276461
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition having a relative dielectric constant ?r of 15-25 allowing formation of a laminated ceramic part having an appropriate size, capable of being sintered at a temperature lower than 800-1000° C. allowing incorporation and lamination of low resistance conductor of Cu or Ag through simultaneous sintering, and having a low dielectric loss tan ? (high Q-value) and a temperature coefficient ?f of resonant frequency has an absolute value not larger than 50 ppm/° C. The dielectric ceramic composition contains 3-30 parts by weight of lead-free low melting point glass containing 50 to 75 wt % of ZnO, 5 to 30 wt % of B2O3, 6 to 15 wt % of SiO2, 0.5 to 5 wt % of Al2O3, and 3 to 10 wt % of BaO, based on 100 parts by weight of major component expressed by a general formula of x?Zn2TiO4-(1?x??y?)ZnTiO3-y?TiO2 where 0.15<x?<0.8 and 0?y??0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20070172652
    Abstract: A low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition is obtained by bending 2.5-20 parts by weight of a glass component per 100 parts by weight of an aggregate of dielectric particles which are composed of Ti-containing dielectric material and contain an oxide including Ti and Zn in the surface portions. A low temperature sintered dielectric ceramic is produced by sintering this low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition at 880 to 1000° C. With this low temperature sinterable dielectric ceramic composition, there can be obtained a multiplayer electronic component having an internal conductor composed of Ag, Cu or an alloy containing at least one of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Masataka Yamanaga, Koichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7232781
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition which can be sintered at such a temperature of about 800 to 1000° C. as to permit incorporation of and multilayer formation with a low resistant conductor such as Ag or Cu by the simultaneous sintering with the low resistant conductor, which is sintered to form dielectric ceramics having a dielectric constant ?r of not more than 10, and a resonator having a large Q×f0 value and an absolute value in temperature coefficient ?f of resonance frequency f0 of not more than 20 ppm/° C., the value being easy to be controlled. The dielectric ceramic composition contains a glass component in an amount of 5 to 150 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of a main component represented by general formula: aZnAl2O4-bZn2SiO4-cTiO2-dZn2TiO4, in which the molar fractions of respective components a, b, c, and d satisfy 5.0?a?80.0 mol % 5.0?b?70.0 mol %, 5.0?c?27.5 mol %, 0?d?30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishitobi, Koichi Fukuda, Takafumi Kawano, Hisayoshi Iba
  • Publication number: 20060234851
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition having a relative dielectric constant ?r of 15-25 allowing formation of a laminated ceramic part having an appropriate size, capable of being sintered at a temperature lower than 800-1000° C. allowing incorporation and lamination of low resistance conductor of Cu or Ag through simultaneous sintering, and having a low dielectric loss tan ? (high Q-value) and a temperature coefficient ?f of resonant frequency has an absolute value not larger than 50 ppm/° C. The dielectric ceramic composition contains 3-30 parts by weight of lead-free low melting point glass containing 50 to 75 wt % of ZnO, 5 to 30 wt % of B2O3, 6 to 15 wt % of SiO2, 0.5 to 5 wt % of Al2O3, and 3 to 10 wt % of BaO, based on 100 parts by weight of major component expressed by a general formula of x?Zn2TiO4-(1?x??y?)ZnTiO3-y?TiO2 where 0.15<x?<0.8 and 0?y??0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Takafumi Kawano, Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20060142141
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition which can be sintered at such a temperature of about 800 to 1000° C. as to permit incorporation of and multilayer formation with a low resistant conductor such as Ag or Cu by the simultaneous sintering with the low resistant conductor, which is sintered to form dielectric ceramics having a dielectric constant ?r of not more than 10, and a resonator having a large Q×f0 value and an absolute value in temperature coefficient ?f of resonance frequency f0 of not more than 20 ppm/° C., the value being easy to be controlled. The dielectric ceramic composition contains a glass component in an amount of 5 to 150 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of a main component represented by general formula: aZnAl2O4-bZn2SiO4-cTiO2-dZn2TiO4, in which the molar fractions of respective components a, b, c, and d satisfy 5.0?a?80.0 mol % 5.0?b?70.0 mol %, 5.0?c?27.5 mol %, 0?d?30.0 mol % (a+b+c+d=100 mol %).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishitobi, Koichi Fukuda, Takafumi Kawano, Hisayoshi Iba
  • Patent number: 7054694
    Abstract: The present invention has the following characteristics. The process input signal input value and engineering unit value scale data are associated and stored inside the control unit. The operation value determined from the input value and the engineering unit value scale data are sent from the control unit to the monitoring unit. Accordingly, the control unit and monitoring unit do not hold separate engineering unit value scale data, so the engineering unit value scale data can be centrally managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Fujinami, You Funaki, Satoshi Okada, Takafumi Kawano
  • Patent number: 6703336
    Abstract: The dielectric ceramic composition of the first aspect of the invention comprises an essential component having a compositional formula of xBaO-yTiO2-zNd2O3 (wherein 0.02≦x≦0.2, 0.6≦y≦0.8, 0.01≦z≦0.3, x+y+z=1), and contains two types of glass powder, one comprising PbO, ZnO and B2O3 and the other comprising SiO2 and B2O3, and a third component that comprises Al2O3, SrTiO3, GeO2 and Li2O. Its advantages are that it can be sintered at low temperatures, its dielectric constant &egr;r falls between 10 and 50 or so, its unloaded Q is large, and its temperature-dependent resonant frequency change is small. The dielectric ceramic composition of the second aspect of the invention comprises an essential component having a compositional formula of s(xBaO-yTiO2-zNd2O3)-tNd2Ti2O7 (wherein 0.02≦x≦0.2, 0.6≦y≦0.8, 0.01≦z≦0.3, x+y+z=1, 0.1≦s≦0.8, 0.2≦t≦0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignees: Ube Electronics, Ltd., Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Fukuda, Takafumi Kawano, Masataka Yamanaga, Sumio Terada, Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20040015244
    Abstract: The present invention has the following characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Fujinami, You Funaki, Satoshi Okada, Takafumi Kawano